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Post by maryloveslucy on Sept 17, 2012 19:56:37 GMT
When you import your files from your memory card, do you organize them in any particular way? Mine import through LR and copy into 'my pictures'. But, I just have them importing in date order, with no further tagging. I've thought about doing more, but the task seems daunting when I look at all the old folders. What do you do?
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Post by chrisc on Sept 17, 2012 19:58:38 GMT
I put them in my month and day. if I shoot multiples, I tag them by am or pm. But, I use bridge for this task..seems infinitely easier than that dang old LR.
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Post by maryloveslucy on Sept 17, 2012 20:02:11 GMT
I've never used Bridge...in CS or LR.
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Post by macromeister on Sept 17, 2012 20:40:27 GMT
When you import your files from your memory card, do you organize them in any particular way? Absolutely, Mary. I normally say 'Oi! you! you haven't taken a very good shot today - go to your room without any post-processing...' They mostly end up in a folder called 'go to your room' Other members may call it 'bin'
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Post by Stevewebb on Sept 17, 2012 22:16:15 GMT
I have always used Bridge Mary. It doesn't try and do anything stupid with the files like LR does. I keep them in month folders and have the whole lot keyworded and backed up onto an external drive. I feel your pain though. last year I set to and keyworded 28,500 images to bring it all up to date and searchable. It took about 6 months though
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Post by maryloveslucy on Sept 17, 2012 22:32:54 GMT
When you import your files from your memory card, do you organize them in any particular way? Absolutely, Mary. I normally say 'Oi! you! you haven't taken a very good shot today - go to your room without any post-processing...' They mostly end up in a folder called 'go to your room' Other members may call it 'bin' That's a great idea! Easy peasy!
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Post by maryloveslucy on Sept 17, 2012 22:33:45 GMT
I have always used Bridge Mary. It doesn't try and do anything stupid with the files like LR does. I keep them in month folders and have the whole lot keyworded and backed up onto an external drive. I feel your pain though. last year I set to and keyworded 28,500 images to bring it all up to date and searchable. It took about 6 months though What stupid stuff in LR? Mine just stay in date order???
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Post by mariehass on Sept 17, 2012 23:44:29 GMT
I use Bridge. Tho, in terms of ease of file processing and handling, Elements was the way to go.
'Rie
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Post by maryloveslucy on Sept 18, 2012 0:34:37 GMT
I use Bridge. Tho, in terms of ease of file processing and handling, Elements was the way to go. 'Rie I never organized in Elements and I thought processing was much more complicated in Elements. Hmmmm...
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Post by Kit on Sept 18, 2012 12:11:40 GMT
I generally split a days shooting into folders with the date (yyyymmdd) and subject as eg: "20100919 Tree on rock, kaiteriteri" "20120919 Spotted shag, Kaiteriteri" (No "s, of course) So far, I just keep them in a folder called "Pictures" on my portion of the hard drive. No tagging yet, which is daft, as there are about a brazzilion of the dashed things. 0_0 I am planning on using Lightroom for organising, but the thought of all that tagging puts me off. The downside of not doing it is of course, not being able to find that funny picture of Uncle Henry walking into the bank with a bucket on his head.
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Post by chrisc on Sept 18, 2012 12:53:35 GMT
this is how I am setup in Bridge... Primary folder by year, month and day: Bridge Subfolder 9-14 P-Cola (Pensacola, FL) showing both the original NEF and JPG files as well as some of the finished work which I save in the same subfolder. And my final prints labled for posting/printing configuration I also have a MS Word doc where I cross reference according to genre: birds, cars, people, some of which are also cross referenced: People - babies, old, friends, street, etc.
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Post by maryloveslucy on Sept 18, 2012 13:13:57 GMT
This seems so terribly complicated.
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Post by chrisc on Sept 18, 2012 13:46:20 GMT
This seems so terribly complicated. Howso? I "get pictures from camera" in the bridge editor, name the file by month and date. all the screen shots you see emanate from the same file folder. Click-scroll click-scroll click again, fini! The cross referencing is a pain, especially if you get behind in your filing. Other than that, all I have to know is the year or date or place I made the shot and I can find it almost instantly.
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Post by maryloveslucy on Sept 18, 2012 14:56:08 GMT
Just does.
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Post by Stevewebb on Sept 18, 2012 19:29:15 GMT
I have always used Bridge Mary. It doesn't try and do anything stupid with the files like LR does. I keep them in month folders and have the whole lot keyworded and backed up onto an external drive. I feel your pain though. last year I set to and keyworded 28,500 images to bring it all up to date and searchable. It took about 6 months though What stupid stuff in LR? Mine just stay in date order??? Bridge is perfectly happy just being pointed to wherever you tell it the photos are. Lightroom however wants you to import the photos into the lightroom catalogue, it keeps this catalogue file somewhere other than where the original image is so you don't get the RAW sidecar file like you do with bridge. I just find it frustrating as I want the files where I put them and not where lightroom wants to put them.
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